5 things I love about conferences

1. New ideas.

2. Being inspired by amazing thinkers.

3. Not having to think about what food to take for lunch.

4. Freebies. The kids were excited to score a new brain each (the squeezy toy advertising some working memory rehabilitation product).

5. Hearing how people are still reading the single article I've had published. It's just over nine years since it was published so I thought it was probably dead as a doornail by now. But it got a couple of mentions. One presenter told me when I introduced myself to her that she first found it only a couple of months ago and it gave her a bit of a lightbulb moment for her own thinking. That's kind of cool. I think I should write something else for publication. Think I can manage it before I go on leave....maybe....

So I'm conferencing....

...for the next three days. The national Occupational Therapy conference is on just up the road from where we live. It's a good opportunity to get some professional development without having to pay for accommodation, flights etc.

I'm looking forward to it. Except that every time I go to these conferences, everyone else looks like they're heaps younger than me. I suppose they are. Next year it will be twenty years since I graduated with my undergraduate degree.

Saying that makes me feel old.

I have done some previous postgrad study to masters level. One day I would love to do a PhD. Hoping this conference has lots of inspirational speakers to give me some ideas on what I can look at when baby and toddler days are behind me...